Tmz tells us that Simon Cowell and Ellen Degeneres flat out dont get along and that tension is building. I personally couldnt get along with someone so cruel either. Tmz sources s say Simon and Ellen aren’t even trying to hide it. Ellen can’t stand what she believes is Simon’s cruelty toward contestants. And,TMZ is being told, Simon actually enjoys pissing Ellen off with his blistering critiques.

It all started badly when Simon showed up late for Ellen’s first week of “A.I.” taping and made her wait around. Producers separated the two — who began the season sitting side-by-side — but the tension has gotten worse.

But business is business. “A.I.” is beating the Olympics, and ratings for Ellen’s show skyrocketed last week. In Hollywood, contempt has its upside. I guess it’s good for ratings but I would not be able to work with someone who is cruel to other people no matter how much they paid me.

TMZ.com is telling us that Fantasia Barinno is on high alert after  the American Idol champ recieved a threatning letter. It all started last night at the Pantages Theater in L.A. — Fantasia was reading her fan mail after a performance of “The Color Purple.”

Fantasia’s manager tells us Barrino became alarmed over a disturbing letter loaded with racial slurs — including the n-word — and a line that read, “go back where you came from and die.”

We’re told the person who wrote the letter claims he used to work as a security guard for Fox while Fantasia was on “A.I.”

Fantasia’s manager tells us the singer immediately contacted theater security — which then contacted the LAPD.

In the meantime, we’re told the theater has “beefed up” security around Fantasia — and all over the venue — and will be screening anything sent to Barrino’s dressing room before it gets to her.

Fantasia told TMZ, “I will not be defeated by one isolated person’s hatred.” Regardless If it is only one person’s threat it still is a scary thing to be threatened and I am glad that everyone is taking the threats seriously.

Wow!  Here’s one I didn’t see coming.  It was just announced that Ellen DeGeneres will be a judge on this season’s American Idol.  I don’t know why I’m surprised.  I’ve seen her talk show and she’s fun and loves to shake and move…there’s always dancing on her show.  I might just have to watch it once in awhile now.

As a competitor during American Idol’s sixth season, LaKisha Jones earned fame as the single mom singer with a big voice. Now Jones, 29, is no longer single – she married financial advisory Larry Davis last October – and she’s got another baby on the way, expecting her first child with Davis this summer, PEOPLE confirms.

The baby will follow the release of Jones’s first solo CD, So Glad I’m Me, out on May 19.

“When I think about all the goodness in my life right now,” Jones said, “everyday I think ‘I’m so glad I’m me!’”

Source: People

‘American Idol’ Winners

The opening of Disney’s Hollywood Studios new attraction, “the American Idol Experience” brought all 7 idol winners together for the first time.

Kelly Clarkson, Ruben Studdard, Fantasia Barrino, Taylor Hicks, Carrie Underwood, Jordin Sparks and last season’s winner, David Cook, gathered on stage in Orlando, FL, at the amusement park for the opening of the new attraction alongside “Idol” host Ryan Seacrest and judge, Paula Abdul.

If you plan on making a trip to Orlando, Fl – visit Disney’s Hollywood Studios and check out The American Idol Experience